Among the most controversial topics in AI is just this: What role do we want AI to have in teaching and learning math? In this episode of Future Fluent, Betsy Corcoran and Jeremy Roschelle talk with Dan Meyer, one of the most outspoken and thoughtful critics of math education and how we're using technology. Learning isn't just "knowledge work," or pouring facts into students heads, Dan says. It's social work. And can --or should-- AI help with that? 

Ready to dive in? Check out these great resources on teaching math and artificial intelligence.

• Mathworlds, a substack by Dan Meyer 
• “Teachers Told Us They’ve Used AI in the Classroom. Here’s Why.” EducationWeek
• “Using Artificial Intelligence Tools in K-12 Classrooms,” RAND 
• “Is there a problem with Mathbots?” EdSurge 
• Hack Education, blog by Audrey Watters 
• GSV’s AI News & Updates (substack), by Claire Zao

What’s Your Ed At, blog by Edward Zitron

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What exactly does “innovation” in education mean? Does it begin in Silicon Valley, or somewhere else? In this episode of Future Fluent, Jeremy Roschelle and Betsy Corcoran explore the who, how, and where of innovation with long-time educator and policy leader, Kristina Ishmael. Join us as Kristina shares insights from her journey from Omaha to Washington, DC.

Want more? Check out FutureFluent.net or these references!

• The most recent National Education Technology Plan on artificial intelligence is no longer available from the website of the Department of Education. Pat Yongpradit of Code.org downloaded the reports from 2023 through 2025. You can ⁠get the collection of reports here from his LinkedIn post⁠.  
• ⁠Indigenous Rights and Tribal Sovereignty in Washington⁠
• ⁠SAMR model (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification and Redefinition) ⁠ 
• ⁠Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning ⁠(2023), Office of Educational Technology  
• ⁠CAST⁠ and the ⁠Universal Design for Learning: Principles, Framework and Practice⁠ 

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How do you use cutting edge technologies without losing your grip on humanity? Mike Yates, an educator for over a decade, is managing that balance. He's fearless about using technology in innovative ways, like hosting AI-inflected poetry slams in his classroom, but remains focused on building the human relationships that are core to great teaching. In this episode of Future Fluent, Jeremy Roschelle and Betsy Corcoran explore Mike's provocative idea: How something he calls "digital dexterity" could shape the future of AI-infused teaching.

Oh, the places you can explore! Check thse out:

• Schoolish (Spotify) (or Schoolish on Apple podcasts.)  
• Schoolish newsletter  
• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin (Here’s the description of her MacArthur Foundation award)
• AI & the Future of Us: An Oprah WInfrey Special (with Bill Gates and Sam Altman) 
• HipHopEd 
• Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education by Sam Seidel 
• Playlab 
• “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” by Claude Shannon
• “Her” (2013)

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Great writers plunge themselves and their lived experience into their writing. In this episode of Future Fluent, Jeremy Roschelle and Betsy Corcoran talk with Mike Sharples, a renowned learning scientist. In the 1990s, Sharples predicted that in less than 20 years computers would write full novels. We talk about how AI has progressed as a writer—and how it may evolve in the future.

Check out some of the work we discussed with Mike Sharples: 

* Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers by Mike Sharples and Rafael Pérez y Pérez 

• On Writing, by Stephen King 
• Innovating Pedagogies 2024
• On Process with Laurie Anderson (from the Smithsonian) 
• Just This Once, by Scott French and Hal
• The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson 
• Principles for the Ethical Use of AI in the UN System
• An Intro to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society by Dan Hendrycks 
• Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity by Mitchel Resnick

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